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Enlightenment and Am
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Enlightenment | A time of optimism and possibly from the late 1600's to the late 1700's. Also called the Age of Reason |
| Salons | Gatherings in wish intellectual and political ideas where exchanged during the Enlightenment |
| Social Contract | A n agreement between a people and their government, stating that people would give up some of their freedom and in return, their government would provide them with peace, security, and order |
| John Locke | An English philosopher and founder of British empiricism |
| Jean-Jacques Roussseau | Swiss-French political philosopher |
| Baron de Montesquieu | French jurist and political philosopher |
| Philosophes | Philosophers of the Enlightenment |
| Voltaire | French philosopher and author |
| Enlightened despots | The absolute monarchs in the 18th century Europe who ruled according to the principles of the Enlightenment |
| Stamp Act | A law passed by the British parliament that raised tax money by requiring the American colonists to pat for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items |
| Thomas Jefferson | American statesman and 3rd president of the US |
| Benjamin Franklin | American statesman |
| George Washington | First president of the US |
| Treaty of Paris | The agreement that officially ended the American revolution and established British recognition of independence of the US |
| James Madison | American statesman known as the "father of the Constitution |
| Federal System | A system of government in which power is divided between a central, or a federal, government and individual states |
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